Office of the Historian

793.94/3179: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Forbes) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, December 12, 1931—8 p.m.
[Received December 12—11:40 a.m.]

259. Your telegram No. 262, December 11, 9 p.m.83 In view of the resignation of the Cabinet, I shall await appointment of new Foreign Minister before taking any action unless otherwise instructed. I have just been informed that Inukai, President of the Seiyukai, has been summoned to the Imperial Palace at 8 o’clock tonight. Unquestionably he will be asked to form a new cabinet. As yet there are no reliable indications of its composition.

Forbes
  1. Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 62.↩